Vol. 24 No. 4 - Winter 1996

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Art that Refuses to Shut Up & Shut Down

• From the Editor

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• Letters

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• Robert Franklin Williams

  When the author of Negroes with Guns died recently, the world took note—except in his home of North Carolina. By Timothy Tyson

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• Roundup

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• Followup: Hamlet Casualties Continue

  By Betsy Barton

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• Fanning the Flames

  The investigators seem to be missing what's right under their noses—who is responsible for church burnings and other acts of racial violence in the South. By Ron Nixon

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• Burning Memories

  A historian finds undercover documents about North Carolina's Ku Klux Klan in the 1960s. By David Cecelski

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• Shut Up & Shut Down

  Censored and defunded, artists in the South still hold their heads up. By Pat Arnow

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• Portfolio

  Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Maxine Henderson in Murfreesboro, Tennessee; Mona Waterhouse in Mobile, Alabama; Isabel Zamora in Fort Worth, Texas; The Road Company in Johnson City, Tennessee

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• White Only on Main Street

  When Missisippi Cultural Crossroads painted a mural, some Port Gibson townspeople saw red. By Emilye Crosby

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• Out Loud

  The people of Colquitt, Georgia, are facing their own stories. By Jo Carson

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• Not Whistling Dixie

  Arts activists Nayo Watkins and John O'Neal talk about making art for social change. By Meridith Helton

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• Resources

  Groups to keep freedom of expression alive.

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• Blueprint for Change: Community Newspapers

  By Eric Goldman

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• Junebug: Southern Exposure's Storyteller: Bo Willie Strikes Again

  By Junebug Jabbo Jones

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• Voices from the South: On Race, Rage, and the Underclass

  By Mansfield B. Frazier

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• Reviews of Southern Media: It Comes from the People

  By Jeanette Stokes

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• Still the South: Whiskey

  By Mary Lee Kerr

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